Generational Breakthroughs

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We'd love 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:37.600 to have you be a part of one of our services, 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:40.360 not let's just talk. Was something funny and I heard 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:43.720 about these two men named Archie and Jack. They had 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:46.760 debated their whole life as to whether Jesus was white 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:50.560 or whether he was black. Archie was certain he was white. 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:53.120 Jack was just as certain he was black. As fate 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:54.880 would have it, they died on the same day. 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:55.840 Rush to the. 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:58.840 Pearly Gates, said Saint Peter, please tell us we've been 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:00.000 arguing our whole life. 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:02.000 Is Jesus white or is he black? 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:04.920 About that time, Jesus stepped up and said. 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:05.800 Buenos dias. 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:09.759 All right, y'all say it like. 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:10.280 You mean it. 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:13.679 This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:16.479 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:19.039 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:22.919 taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:26.240 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:31.240 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:35.440 to talk to you today about generational breakthroughs. Some of 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:38.840 the things we struggle with didn't start with us. They 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:42.280 were passed down from those that went before us. We 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:45.280 don't get to choose our battles. We show up and 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:48.600 have things to deal with, and sometimes we wonder, why 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:51.440 can't I get ahead? I take one step forward and 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:54.120 then two steps backwards? Are why am I drawn to 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:57.280 this bad habit? Why can't I control my temper? Why 0:01:57.320 --> 0:02:00.920 don't I trust anyone that can be negat negative baggage 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:05.520 in your family line? Studies show how depression can be 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:08.440 passed down, addictions. 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:09.280 Anger, low self esteem. 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.480 I talked to a gentleman who struggled with his self 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:16.600 worth and not feeling secure and confident. He told how 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:20.000 his father was raised in a negative environment. There was 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:24.440 neglect and abandonment, people that never nurtured him and made 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:25.480 him feel valuable. 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:29.440 Now his son has this same struggle with low self. 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:35.200 Esteem and unworthiness. Those are spirits being passed down. Doesn't 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:38.760 seem fair, didn't have anything to do with us. We 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:42.799 have to reap the consequences of someone else's actions, deal 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:45.800 with the effects of their bad breaks or the injustice 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:50.040 they suffered. God knew there would be these weaknesses that 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:54.400 you didn't earn. He knew every piece of generational baggage 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:57.120 that would be passed down to you, and some of 0:02:57.160 --> 0:02:58.920 them you can't break on your own. 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:01.359 You try, you've stood. 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:03.600 Strong, but will power is not enough. 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:07.400 It wasn't a lack of discipline, you weren't strong enough. 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:12.160 This was something you inherited that you can't defeat by yourself. 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:15.960 The good news is God is a god of justice. 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:19.959 One reason Jesus came was to take off of you 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:24.000 what was unfairly put on you and what you can't defeat. 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:27.280 He's going to defeat for you what you tried and 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:28.400 you couldn't overcome. 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:30.440 He's going to cause you to overcome. 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:38.200 And yes, you may have some generational weaknesses depression, passed down, addictions, divorce, poverty. 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:41.160 But this is a new day. There's about to be a. 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:48.600 Generational breakthrough, generational freedom, generational abundance, generational joy. I believe 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:53.320 things are shifting, chains are breaking, strongholds coming down. 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:55.120 Anxiety is leaving. 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:58.640 God is putting an end to it once and for all, 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:03.440 not just for you, but for your children, for your grandchildren. 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:06.440 The enemies you see today you will see no more. 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:09.880 This is what happened with the Israelites. They had been 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:14.480 in slavery for four hundred years, ten generations of defeat, 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:19.320 being mistreated, working long hours with no pay, given quotas 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:23.000 that they couldn't meet. They hadn't done anything wrong. They 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:26.560 didn't threaten the Egyptians. They didn't try to overtake the land. 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:30.680 The Pharaoh was afraid they would multiply and get too powerful, 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:35.120 so he captured them and made them slaves. It was unfair, 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:38.920 but the Israelites couldn't do anything about it. The Egyptians 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:41.680 were stronger, had more equipment, more weapons. 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:45.160 Looked like this was permanent, that they'd never be free. 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:49.039 But God said in Exodus, I have seen the affliction 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:52.520 of my people. I have heard their cries, and I 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:56.839 am coming down to deliver them. God was saying, enough 0:04:57.040 --> 0:05:00.839 is enough. This may have gone on for generation. You 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:04.520 couldn't do anything about it. Those forces were too strong. 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:07.440 But I'm coming down to put a stop to it. 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:10.839 I'm going to break the chains. I'm going to free 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:13.520 you from the addiction. I'm going to release you from 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:17.560 that depression. I'm gonna thrust you into your purpose. See 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:20.440 that addiction may not have started with you. 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:21.200 You can look. 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:23.839 Back and see it in your family line, but it's 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:24.960 going to end with you. 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:27.880 God knows what's been unfair. 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:31.280 He knows the things you're dealing with that you didn't 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:34.240 have anything to do with. You didn't choose to be 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:38.480 raised in a difficult environment. You didn't choose that sickness 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:40.960 that runs in your family, or choose to be looked 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:45.920 down on. You've borne the consequences of other people's actions 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:49.760 long enough. You carried the weight of what was passed down, 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:51.360 the guilt, the. 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:55.359 Shame, the insecurity. God is doing a new theme, like 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:56.479 with the Israelites. 0:05:56.720 --> 0:05:58.520 He's going to deliver you from. 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:03.640 Generational baggage, from injustice, things that were unfair in your 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:07.920 family line, in things your relatives didn't deal with. They 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:10.680 didn't see the grace you're going to see it. God 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:13.960 has raised you up to set a new standard. And 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:16.919 I'm not saying to blame everything on the past, and 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:18.920 we don't have to take responsibility. 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:21.279 But there are negative. 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:23.680 Things that have been passed down that you didn't have 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:26.080 anything to do with. But now you have to deal 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:29.520 with it. You didn't choose it on your own. You 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:33.000 can't overcome it. Thoughts will tell you you'll never be free, 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:37.920 You'll always be depressed, Always deal with this addiction, always 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:41.960 have these family problems. No, that's when our God steps in, 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:45.520 the God of justice, the God who makes wrongs right, 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:48.919 the God who pays you back for what's unfair, The 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:51.920 God who gives your joy for mourning, The God who 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:55.200 delivers you from the Pharaohs, The God who promotes you 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:58.040 when you weren't next in line, The God who takes 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:01.040 you from the background to the foreground, The God who 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:03.120 makes rivers in the desert. 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:05.320 The God who causes our cup to run over. 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:11.000 That God is coming down with generational breakthroughs, with healing 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:16.040 in his wings, with abundance, with freedom, with victory. But 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:18.720 like the Israelites. When we've struggled in an area for 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:21.680 a long time, it's easy to accept it and think 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:24.280 that it's never going to change. They had been that 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:28.920 way for ten generations. Then suddenly God showed up. They 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:31.560 didn't see it coming, There was no sign of it. 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:35.640 They were going about their business as usual, making bricks, 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:41.920 gathering straw, working as slaves. They looked up and saw Moses, unexpected. 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:45.600 He hadn't been around in forty years. Before long he 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:49.040 was leading them out of captivity. God has some of 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:53.560 these sudden turnarounds for you. Negative baggage may have been 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:57.280 there a long time. You prayed, you stood strong, but 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:01.760 nothing has changed. Your time is I can't hear God 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:06.080 saying enough is enough. You're gonna see some of these suddenlyies. 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:10.400 Suddenly the addiction is broken, Suddenly your health turns around. 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:15.000 Suddenly the right person shows up. Suddenly your business takes off. 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:20.120 What's limited you in the past is not permanent. Generational 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:23.320 breakthroughs are coming. God is going to take off of 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:27.200 you what was put on you. The Israelites left Egypt 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:30.840 and headed toward the Promised Land was a dream come true. 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:34.439 They were finally free, but out in the desert. They 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:38.360 started to complain, Man, it's hot out here, Moses, what 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:39.160 are we gonna eat? 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:42.040 What are we gonna drink? These enemies are too big. 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:43.720 We can't go into that land. 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:47.880 Here they had seen God part the Red Sea drown 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:51.160 their enemies change the mind of the Pharaoh. But they 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:55.720 quickly forgot, and because of their doubt and negativity, God 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:58.959 told them that they would never go into the promised land. 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:02.800 They want in the desert for forty years, caught around 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:03.800 the same mountain. 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:04.600 Well. 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:08.400 In the Book of Joshua, the children of these Israelites 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:12.160 were at the Jordan River. Their parents, the ones that 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:15.280 wandered in the desert, that had been slaves, they had 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:20.000 all died. Now Joshua was leading their children. God said 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:23.480 to them in chapter five, this day I have rolled 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:28.040 away the reproach of Egypt off of you. What's interesting 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:32.000 is these children they were adults now. They had never 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:34.800 been in Egypt. They were born out in the desert. 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:39.280 They had never been slaves. They hadn't suffered that injustice. 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:44.480 But the shame, the insecurity, those limiting mindsets had been 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:45.199 passed down. 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:47.280 They thought, we're not valuable. 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:49.559 Nothing good ever happens to us. 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:52.359 We come from defeat, mediocrity. 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:56.480 God knew he had to get that generational baggage off 0:09:56.480 --> 0:10:00.040 of them so they could step into their purpose. And 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:03.400 he said, I'm rolling away the reproach of the past. 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:08.479 God was showing us that he doesn't hold us responsible. 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:10.520 For the mistakes of those that went before us. 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:15.800 Their weaknesses, their shortcomings, are not going to limit your destiny. 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:19.600 There may be people in your family line that didn't 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:22.800 honor God. They made decisions that kept them out of 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:26.000 their promised land. You may have to deal with some 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:29.960 negative baggage, some things to overcome, but it's not going 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:30.640 to keep. 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:32.319 You out of your promised land. 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:35.840 God is going to remove the reproach. He's going to 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:40.800 remove the shame, remove the barriers, remove that injustice so 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.440 you can become all you were created to be. 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:48.160 Now, don't use the past as an excuse to settle. 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:48.360 Where you are. 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:51.280 But Joe, you don't know how I was raised. 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:54.600 There was a lot of dysfunction, a lot of compromise, 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:56.320 people that didn't have integrity. 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:58.640 God knew what you'd have to deal with. 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:00.679 They left you with some. 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:03.960 Negative baggage, but they did not stop your purpose. 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:06.000 God knows how to remove it. 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:09.560 If you'll keep the right attitude, he'll take what was 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:12.280 meant to stop you and instead use. 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:13.000 It to promote you. 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:16.559 The prophet Ezekiel said it this way. 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:20.840 The fathers ate the sour grapes, and their children's teeth 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:24.440 are set on edge. As surely as I live, declares 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:28.400 the Sovereign Lord, you will no longer quote this. This 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:32.600 was a proverb they had been living by. Their thinking was, 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:36.200 since the father had problems, the children will as well. 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:38.000 Nothing we can do about it. 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:42.040 Since the father ate the sour grapes, since the parents 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:45.920 had addictions, since the grandparents were depressed, Now the. 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:48.520 Children are going to struggle with those same things. 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:51.360 They just accepted that it would be passed down. 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:55.199 Then God showed up and said, why are you using 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:57.000 your relatives as an excuse? 0:11:57.800 --> 0:11:59.040 Why are you thinking what. 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:03.000 Your parents did and how you were raised and mistakes 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:06.240 they made, is going to hold you back. As long 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:09.679 as the Sovereign Lord is alive, you are not bound 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:14.000 by what's been passed down. Your relatives may have eaten 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:17.640 the sour grapes. People in your family line put you 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:18.880 at a disadvantage. 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:21.959 You're dealing with consequences of their actions. 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:26.240 Hardships you didn't earn. God knows what wasn't fair. 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:30.440 He knows when you're carrying burdens put on you by others. 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:33.680 That's why he said, I'm going to remove the reproach. 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:36.880 I'm going to take off of you what doesn't belong 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:39.520 to you. I'm going to free you from what you 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:43.240 had nothing to do with. He's not holding you responsible 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:45.800 for these battles that you didn't choose. 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:47.320 He sees you. 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:49.040 Doing the right thing when it's hard. 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:54.280 He sees the struggle, the loneliness, the injustice. That may 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:57.800 be what you inherited, but that's not how your story ends. 0:12:58.000 --> 0:12:59.880 God's about to remove some things. 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:03.840 He told the parents of these Israelites that they weren't 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:05.439 going to go into the Promised Land. 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:08.680 But he didn't say that the children. Hey, that goes 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:09.679 for you too. 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:14.520 Too bad. Your relatives blew it. They complained, they disobeyed. 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:17.080 They ruined it for you know what the parents missed 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:17.400 out on. 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:20.120 God said, I'm going to give to the. 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:25.800 Children what your relatives didn't give because of injustice, or 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:30.920 they weren't treated fairly, or because of weaknesses, shortcomings, mistakes. 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:35.200 God says, it's headed your way. You didn't just get 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:36.520 the negative baggage. 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:39.120 The dysfunction wasn't just passed down. 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:43.760 The blessing is being passed down, the favor, the freedom, 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:47.920 the joy, the abundance that belongs to your family. You 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:50.600 may have struggled in an area a long time, seems 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:52.640 like it's all We're going to be that way, nor 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:58.800 get ready. Generational breakthroughs are coming. Breakthroughs in your health, breakthroughs. 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:02.280 In your finances. How about breakthroughs concerning your dreams? 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:07.120 Seems impossible. Every door keeps closing. No one in your 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:12.000 family has been successful. God is removing the reproach. He's 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:17.000 removing barriers that have held back your creativity, the right people, 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:18.199 the opportunity. 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:21.760 You're stepping into a new season, a season of. 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:24.720 Growth where God is going to make up for what 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:27.280 should have been yours. He's going to make up for 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:31.320 time that you're lost because of hindrances from the past. 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:34.920 What belonged to your family, what they missed out on, 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:38.840 is coming to you. One way God was going to 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:42.720 remove the reproach from the Israelites was to take them 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:47.360 into the Promised Land, where they would see abundance, favor, 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:49.920 blessing no longer would they had. 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:51.400 These limited mindsets. 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:56.320 You can imagine being raised in the desert, living in nomads, 0:14:56.720 --> 0:15:02.560 traveling around the same mountain, eating the same food every day, uncomfortable, hot, 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:04.520 no joy, no victory. 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:08.760 This is all they had seen, hardship, mediocrity. 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:13.200 They didn't choose this, They were born into it, dealing 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:17.920 with the consequences of their parents' choices and the injustice 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:21.680 that went back into their family line for generations, all 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:24.400 this negative baggage that they inherited. 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:27.840 And sometimes we wonder why we're struggling. Why do I 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:30.760 keep giving in to this temptation? Why is it so 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:33.520 hard to control my temper? Why can't I get ahead? 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:37.480 There are forces that have been trying to stop. 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:40.960 You before you ever got here, Before you were born, 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:46.720 the enemy targeted your destiny through your family line, sent hardship, 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:49.760 troubled and injustice. 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:51.000 Hoping it would be passed on to you. 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:56.120 He's trying to get you discouraged, doubting, limited. But where 0:15:56.120 --> 0:16:00.800 he miscalculated is long before the enemy ever knew your name, 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:04.600 long before you were on his radar, The god who 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:08.880 created the universe knew you and planned out your days 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:13.840 for good. He specifically chose people to be in your 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:18.080 family line for each generation. Nothing is a surprise to God. 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:23.240 You're not at a disadvantage. You didn't get short changed. Yes, 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:26.480 there will be negative baggage. But he's a god who 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:31.280 removes the reproach. He's a god who breaks generational limitations. 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:34.680 He's a god who frees you from what's been passed down. 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:38.720 You don't have to eat the sour grapes. Your relatives 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:41.600 may not have gone into the Promised Land. God's going 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:42.400 to give you. 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:43.680 What they missed out on. 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:47.320 I spoke to a woman that came from a family 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:53.080 of alcoholics. Her father struggled with alcohol, grandfather, great grandfather. 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:55.280 As far back as she could see, there was this 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:57.400 addiction of alcoholism. 0:16:57.960 --> 0:16:58.880 It's a little girl. 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:01.840 She was here of father drink too much and he'd 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:05.600 get loud and abusive and mistreat her mother. And she 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:08.800 lived afraid and on edge. She got to where she 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:13.040 hated alcohol. She saw it terror family apart, and never 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:15.479 wanted to have anything to do with it. But at 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:18.720 fourteen years old, with a group of friends, she took 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:21.960 her first drink, did something she said she'd never do. 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:26.080 The first led to another, and another and another. Before 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:30.879 long she became what she despised. At seventeen, she was 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:35.639 an alcoholic. That's not a coincidence. Those are spirits that 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:39.639 get passed from generation to generation. It's not just a 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:42.119 physical battle, it's a spiritual battle. 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:43.080 Now. 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:45.359 I'm not saying again to blame the past, that nothing's 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:49.240 ever our fault, but it's important to recognize what you're 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:53.040 dealing with. There are some things you didn't start. 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:54.600 You inherited it. 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:57.760 With all the will power in the world, he can't 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:02.560 seem to overcome. With all you dis strength, intellect, nothing's changing. 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:07.239 Feels like we're stopped. The reason it's so stubborn is 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:09.040 you're not just fighting this battle. 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:12.560 You're fighting a battle that's gone back for generations. 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:16.320 The enemy has been working in your family line, trying 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:16.840 to keep you. 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:17.640 From your purpose. 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:20.400 He's not going to give up ground easily. 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:22.159 Here's the good news. 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:25.840 The forces that are for you are greater than any. 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:26.960 Force it is against you. 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:30.960 This is when the most high God shows up, not 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:35.800 just with a breakthrough, but with a generational breakthrough. Not 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:40.040 just for you, but remove the reproach, take away what's 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:45.399 limited your family line, that dysfunction, divorce, low self esteem, 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:48.560 the poverty, yes, that may be how it's been, but 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:49.600 this is a new day. 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:52.320 God is saying, I'm breaking chains. 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:54.760 I'm canceling negative baggage. 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:59.639 I'm releasing you into freedom, into wholeness, into abundance, into joy. 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:02.080 He's about to be a shift. 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:05.480 What used to hinder you is not gonna hinder you anymore. 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:07.600 What used to be a struggle. 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:08.480 Is not gonna be a struggle. 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:11.000 You're gonna feel a supernatural ease. 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:14.960 You've been carrying the weight of other people's baggage in 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:16.080 your family line. 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:18.440 You couldn't help it. It was passed down. 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:21.600 But God's about to lift the burden. He's about to 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:25.600 lighten that load. You're coming into a blooming season where 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:30.119 you're gonna see growth, favor, and influence like you've never seen. 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:33.760 God's not just going to free you from the negative baggage. 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:36.320 He's going to pay you back for what should have 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:39.679 been yours. Your relatives may have missed it, but the 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:41.400 promised Land is still. 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:41.920 In your future. 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:47.840 God said to the Israelites, this day, I'm removing the reproach. 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:51.160 God has some of these. This day's for you. 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:55.240 Seems like it's never gonna happen. It's been so long. No, 0:19:55.440 --> 0:19:58.840 this day is coming. It's already on the schedule where 0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:00.440 God says, this. 0:20:00.160 --> 0:20:01.560 Day, I'm breaking the addiction. 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:04.480 This day, I'm bringing you a spouse. 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:08.439 This day, I'm healing your body. This day, I'm turning 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:13.119 your child around. This day, I'm sending abundance. Get ready 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:17.280 for some this days. I don't know, Joel, this is encouraging, 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:19.480 but you should see what's in my family line. 0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:20.680 We're all dysfunctional. 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:24.240 Nobody can get ahead, have a different attitude. 0:20:24.240 --> 0:20:26.879 Father, Thank you that this day is coming. 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:31.160 Lord, Thank you that you're freeing me from negative baggage. 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:33.879 You're removing every reproach. Lord. 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:37.760 I believe generational breakthroughs are headed my way, that I 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:40.800 am not gonna wander in mediocrity, but I will go 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:42.440 into my promised land. 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:45.600 That young woman struggled with alcohol. 0:20:45.240 --> 0:20:49.480 For nineteen years. She'd gone to treatment, rehab, no success. 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:52.280 She thought that was her lot in life, been in 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:55.639 her family so long. One day she heard me talking 0:20:55.680 --> 0:20:59.520 about how God is a chain breaker, how addictions are 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:02.480 not our day destiny, and how His power is greater 0:21:02.640 --> 0:21:05.600 than what's trying to stop us. And she didn't have 0:21:05.800 --> 0:21:08.480 any kind of faith background, but she got down on 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:12.520 her knees and said, God, please help me. I've tried 0:21:12.640 --> 0:21:15.199 everything I can, but God, I can't do it on 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:18.440 my own. The next morning, she woke up and didn't 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:23.240 have any desire for alcohol. That's been fourteen years ago. 0:21:23.680 --> 0:21:25.040 She hasn't touched it since. 0:21:26.040 --> 0:21:29.760 What happened. She came in to a this day. 0:21:30.160 --> 0:21:33.840 Where God removed the reproach. You may be struggling with 0:21:33.880 --> 0:21:36.919 things that seem permanent. You look back and see it 0:21:36.960 --> 0:21:39.480 in your family line, and you've tried but. 0:21:39.560 --> 0:21:44.080 Haven't been able to overcome. Like her, this day is coming. 0:21:44.960 --> 0:21:47.560 God has chosen you to put an end to that 0:21:47.680 --> 0:21:50.880 negative cycle. You wouldn't be hearing this if He wasn't 0:21:50.920 --> 0:21:55.280 about to free you from generational limitation. It's not just 0:21:55.320 --> 0:21:58.360 going to benefit you, it's going to benefit your children, 0:21:58.800 --> 0:22:03.200 your grandchildren. When God removed the reproach from the Israelites, 0:22:03.640 --> 0:22:06.760 he was correcting wrongs that had gone on for four 0:22:06.840 --> 0:22:07.960 hundred and thirty years. 0:22:08.400 --> 0:22:10.600 That's how long they'd been in slavery. 0:22:10.800 --> 0:22:13.520 God is going to correct things that have hindered your 0:22:13.560 --> 0:22:19.840 family for generations. There may have been defeat, mediocrity injustice. 0:22:20.440 --> 0:22:23.639 People that weren't treated right, didn't get what they deserved. 0:22:24.200 --> 0:22:27.400 God is keeping all the records. He's going to make 0:22:27.520 --> 0:22:30.520 up for what should have been yours. He knows how 0:22:30.560 --> 0:22:32.040 to pay you back for the wrongs. 0:22:32.480 --> 0:22:33.040 You don't have. 0:22:33.040 --> 0:22:36.200 To make all this happen in your own strength. Strive 0:22:36.400 --> 0:22:40.919 and strain, manipulate things. Just keep God first place, Just 0:22:41.000 --> 0:22:43.800 keep honoring him. It's not going to happen by your mind, 0:22:44.119 --> 0:22:47.879 by your power. There are forces that have been in 0:22:47.920 --> 0:22:51.440 our family line so long, like the Israelites all those 0:22:51.480 --> 0:22:55.080 years in slavery, that are too strong for us. We 0:22:55.160 --> 0:22:56.920 can't change it in our ability. 0:22:57.160 --> 0:22:57.840 Here's the key. 0:22:58.280 --> 0:23:01.439 It's not going to be natural, It's going to be supernatural. 0:23:01.840 --> 0:23:04.840 That's when the Most High God will show up and 0:23:04.920 --> 0:23:09.000 do what only he can do, break those generational chains. 0:23:09.840 --> 0:23:12.560 The Israelites were at the Jordan River. On the other 0:23:12.680 --> 0:23:16.320 side was the Promised Land. The problem was the river 0:23:16.480 --> 0:23:19.920 was at flood stage. It was swollen almost. 0:23:19.640 --> 0:23:20.719 A mile across. 0:23:21.080 --> 0:23:23.240 The water's rushing so forcefully. 0:23:23.800 --> 0:23:27.280 They had no boats, no bridge. Looked like they were stopped, 0:23:27.920 --> 0:23:30.800 but God told Joshua to have the priest leave the 0:23:30.840 --> 0:23:34.360 people across the river. When they arrived at the banks, 0:23:34.520 --> 0:23:37.439 they were to walk into the water and stop the 0:23:37.480 --> 0:23:40.199 priest walked in I can imagine got up to their 0:23:40.280 --> 0:23:41.119 knees and stop. 0:23:41.640 --> 0:23:42.680 But nothing happened. 0:23:43.280 --> 0:23:45.760 The water didn't part like it did for Moses at 0:23:45.760 --> 0:23:46.400 the Red Sea. 0:23:47.119 --> 0:23:49.280 They waited and waited, still nothing. 0:23:49.880 --> 0:23:54.359 But what they couldn't see was upstream, twenty miles away. 0:23:54.960 --> 0:23:58.680 This huge wind came and caused the water to stop flowing, 0:23:59.400 --> 0:24:01.360 just like a damn Now. 0:24:01.200 --> 0:24:02.480 No water could get through. 0:24:03.160 --> 0:24:06.359 In a few hours, the water's receded where they were. 0:24:06.760 --> 0:24:09.200 They were able to walk across on a dry river 0:24:09.280 --> 0:24:13.679 bed and go into the Promised Land. What Joshua couldn't 0:24:13.720 --> 0:24:16.960 do on his own, what all of his men couldn't defeat. 0:24:17.440 --> 0:24:21.840 The water was too powerful, current, too strong, riverbed too wide. 0:24:22.280 --> 0:24:25.000 Seemed like they were at a dead end. But God 0:24:25.080 --> 0:24:29.200 is not limited by the natural. He's supernatural. He can 0:24:29.280 --> 0:24:32.959 do what we can't do. When we hear he's going 0:24:33.040 --> 0:24:36.560 to remove the reproach free is from generational baggage. Sometimes 0:24:36.600 --> 0:24:38.840 we can think, I don't know, Joe, I don't see 0:24:38.840 --> 0:24:41.880 how I've had this addiction so long, and my family's 0:24:41.920 --> 0:24:45.879 always struggled with LAP. I've tried everything to deal with 0:24:45.920 --> 0:24:46.719 this anxiety. 0:24:47.240 --> 0:24:50.000 You've done all you can, God, sees you. 0:24:50.000 --> 0:24:52.400 With your feet in the Jordan river, so to speak. 0:24:52.600 --> 0:24:56.480 You prayed, You've worked hard, you've stood strong. You don't 0:24:56.480 --> 0:25:00.879 see anything changing life with Joshua. God about to stop 0:25:01.000 --> 0:25:04.280 what you couldn't stop. He's going to hold back what's 0:25:04.320 --> 0:25:07.760 been hindering you so you can go into your promised land. 0:25:08.760 --> 0:25:12.280 That depression seems too big. God knows how to stop it. 0:25:13.040 --> 0:25:15.800 You've had that addiction for years. I can see the 0:25:15.800 --> 0:25:20.399 waters damming up, that negative baggage that you inherited, the 0:25:20.480 --> 0:25:23.840 dysfunction that was passed down, things you had nothing to 0:25:23.880 --> 0:25:24.280 do with. 0:25:24.840 --> 0:25:26.320 God is stopping the flow. 0:25:27.119 --> 0:25:31.200 You're about to cross over into freedom, cross over into healing, 0:25:31.600 --> 0:25:34.320 crossover into confidence, into abundance. 0:25:34.880 --> 0:25:36.920 You don't have to eat the sour grapes. 0:25:37.800 --> 0:25:40.199 Those that went before you, they may have slowed you 0:25:40.280 --> 0:25:43.240 down a little bit, but they did not stop your destiny. 0:25:43.560 --> 0:25:47.600 You're the Joshua generation. God has chosen you to go 0:25:47.720 --> 0:25:51.800 into the promised land. No more wandering in the desert, 0:25:52.200 --> 0:25:55.440 suffering from injustice, held back by bad choices. 0:25:55.920 --> 0:25:59.359 The water has stopped, the flow has been cut off. 0:25:59.760 --> 0:26:04.080 This day, God has removed the reproach. Not next week, 0:26:04.480 --> 0:26:08.560 not next month, This day, He's removed the shame. This day, 0:26:08.640 --> 0:26:13.480 he's removed the dysfunction. You're about to step into generational blessings, 0:26:14.000 --> 0:26:17.760 blessings that belong to your family that they never received. 0:26:18.400 --> 0:26:22.960 There were hindrances, injustice, mistakes. They may have missed out, 0:26:23.320 --> 0:26:26.320 but you didn't miss out. God's about to release them 0:26:26.320 --> 0:26:31.560 to you. I believe and declare every generational limitation. 0:26:31.680 --> 0:26:33.680 Is broken off of your life. 0:26:33.800 --> 0:26:38.600 Addictions that have been passed down, depression, divorce, poverty is 0:26:38.680 --> 0:26:39.720 coming to an end. 0:26:40.200 --> 0:26:42.080 That flow is being cut off. 0:26:42.400 --> 0:26:47.600 You're about to step in to these generational blessings, freedom, healing, 0:26:47.960 --> 0:26:51.880 abundance that belonged to your family, the fullness of your 0:26:51.920 --> 0:26:55.840 destiny in Jesus's name, and if you receive it, Can 0:26:55.880 --> 0:27:00.000 you say amen? I'd like to give you an opportunity 0:27:00.280 --> 0:27:03.119 to make Jesus the Lord of your life. Would you 0:27:03.160 --> 0:27:07.199 pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of 0:27:07.240 --> 0:27:10.919 my sins. Come into my heart. I make you my 0:27:11.000 --> 0:27:14.600 Lord and savior. 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The 0:27:47.160 --> 0:27:51.479 image before you is incredible, but the confidence inside is lacking. 0:27:52.040 --> 0:27:53.119 How do you overcome this? 0:27:54.160 --> 0:27:57.720 The opinion you have of yourself is your most important opinion. 0:27:58.240 --> 0:28:02.720 Too often we see ourselves as ordinary, not talented, unattractive. 0:28:03.320 --> 0:28:06.800 That wrong self image is setting the limits for our life. 0:28:06.880 --> 0:28:09.160 The key is to get an agreement with who God 0:28:09.200 --> 0:28:14.200 says you are. He calls you a masterpiece, strong, talented, valuable. 0:28:14.840 --> 0:28:17.600 If you'll have the right image of yourself, you'll rise 0:28:17.720 --> 0:28:20.840 higher and become who you were created to be. We 0:28:20.920 --> 0:28:23.080 have a new resource that will help you do just that. 0:28:23.400 --> 0:28:27.040 It's called you Are a Masterpiece. 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